Big brands, including Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, KFC, Kraft Foods and MillerCoors, are wasting billions of dollars worth of valuable materials because they sell food and drinks in subpar packaging, according to a comprehensive new report on packaging and recycling by the fast food, beverage, consumer goods and grocery industries.
Keon Daniel was on international duty for the RSL match, but if there's one thing he can do despite a subpar season, it's hold the ball and kill a game.
If Janet Yellen, who becomes chairman on February 1st, is greeted with more evidence of subpar growth, she will more inclined to strengthen the commitment to zero rates for a long time.
Were Kraft to enjoy the same margin uplift that Heinz has, this would rise to 6%—still subpar.
If a company suffers subpar profits, doing a good turn for an analyst cuts the likelihood of a downgrade by half.
The authors warn of "an extended period of anemic, subpar growth", which seems to allude to decades of bleakness, only to follow up by noting that "one cannot even rule out the risk of a double-dip recession in the U.S. and other advanced economies".
Pimco's Mr El-Erian reckons that the transition from consumption to export-oriented expansion will lead to prolonged subpar growth and high unemployment.That will heighten political risks such as protectionism.
Common sense would suggest some information a car's age and mileage is essential, but that total transparency about other things (precise details on subpar paintwork) might deter buyers, lowering the auctioneer's commissions.
Sadly, with such stability at a subpar pace of growth, low interest rates and low volatility have a bigger impact on asset prices than on real investment, and risk creating financial bubbles long before economies reach full employment.Invest and reformOne way to address this risk is for central bankers to use regulatory tools to counter the build-up of asset-price excesses.
All the attention paid to a single tri-lateral trade agreement should remind us that trade agreements are a pretty subpar way to liberalise trade in the first place.
Private-equity funds also buy whole firms, replacing managers and setting strategy.Activists provide a way for lazy money to outsource the messy task of fixing subpar firms.
